Word: swung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word around the corral is that with his new novel, Nobody's Angel, Thomas McGuane rode into town, swung open the doors of the saloon and single-handed transformed the saddleworn clichés of Western fiction. The irony is that McGuane's fifth novel is his first set in the West. The Sporting Club, his debut, occurs up in Michigan, Hemingway country, while his best novel, Ninety-Two in the Shade, takes place in Key West (again Hemingway turf), where McGuane lived and worked. Although McGuane, 42, moved to Livingston, Mont., in 1968, he has not mined...
...momentum soon swung in the Crimson's direction, when Harvard's number-one player. All-American Howard Sands, and sixth-ranked sophomore Rob wheeler pulled out three-set victories, knotting the match at three wins apiece...
...bodies back and forth under the rules of the game. Fat golfers occasionally suffer heart attacks or heat prostration out on the links, and some Florida players have been struck by lightning. During the spring trip. Baker had to hit a shot near a water hazard. As he swung at the ball, he noticed that an eight-foot alligator lay within spitting distance Obstacles like these are considered part of the game--golfers don't give up and go home just because a shot lies within the shadow of a toothy reptile...
...current groundswell could have the beneficial effect of nudging the Administration to ward a more moderate set of defense and arms-control policies than it has espoused to date. The pendulum of official thinking about nuclear weapons has swung from one side to the other in recent years, and it needs to be brought back to the center. The Reaganauts, in their overreaction to the perceived naivete of their Carterite predecessors, have concentrated in their rhetoric and military programs on war fighting at the expense of deterrence, rearmament at the expense of arms control. Most policymakers in the Administration acknowledge...
...White House's blunders incoherence, and incompetence now seems a particularly irresponsible error. But at least journalists are finally hungering to expose the President's inability to deal with the nation's very real problems. It's only unfortunate that that eagerness came months after public reaction swung against Reaganism...